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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Legendary Archetypes: Mystical Martial Artist

In Legendary Archetypes, the Wine and Savages blog presents ready-to-use Legendary Rank (80 XP) heroes built using only the Savage Worldscore rules. These archetypes are offered as aids for duet and solo gamers or for gaming groups ready to jump right into the big leagues.

The characters are built with an eye toward versatility (necessary in duet gaming) and so have their Traits and Edges spread out for broader competence rather than min/maxed in certain areas. Game Masters using these archetypes may wish to allow the players another 20 to 40 experience points (2 to 4 Advances) to further customize the characters beyond choosing Hindrances.

Mystical Martial Artist

Hindrances: Arrogant, Small, Vow [Minor; to CURE]

Trained in spiritual traditions that wed training in the martial arts to expanding one's consciousness or touching the face of God, the mystical martial artist combines combat prowess with mystical might. The mystical martial artist's incredible powers may be subtle like those of Chiun (the Master of Sinanju) and Kwai Chang Caine, overt like those of Chun Li and Danny Rand, or spectacular like those of Aang and Korra.

While this build emphasizes the mystical martial artist's skill in hand-to-hand combat, the archetype can be modified into a deadly assassin (+2 Climbing, +3 Stealth and Throwing, New Power -- speed), manipulator of the elements (New Power x 4 -- damage field, elemental manipulation, entangle, environmental protection), or a bad-ass street fighter (+1 Vigor, New Power x 3 -- quickness, any two offensive powers or armor)

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